A Short History Of Guatemala

Antil, Marcos

I am Marcos Antil, Guatemalan, Mayan Q'anjob'al, immigrant, family man, tech entrepreneur, founder of the company XumaK in the United States, Colombia and in Guatemala. With clients in more than twenty-five countries, which include companies from the Fortune 500. Born and raised in Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala; at fourteen I migrated, undocumented, to the U.S.A. unac...

Omar Sanchez-Sibony

By embedding Guatemala in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and political economy, this volume advances knowledge about country's politics, economy, and state-society interactions. The contributors examine the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemala during the post-Peace-Accords-era across the following subjects: the state, subnationa...

Way, J.t.

u003cpu003eIn u003ciu003eAgrotropolis,u003c/iu003e historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns seen as quintessentially "rural" and showcases grassroots cultural assertiveness. In a post-r...

Nolin, Catherine / Russell, Grahame

What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into "property," while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell ...

Gibbings, Julie

Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and ...

Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia

A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan history. On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Dâiaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and...

Lee Woodward, Ralph

La primera impresión que uno obtiene del libro de Ralph Woodward, Jr., es su carácter monumental (que el diccionario sintetiza en algo muy grande o excelente y objeto de utilidad para la historia). Pero no nos atrae por su grosor, sino porque al leerlo se comprueba la erudición, la paciente labor de archivo y lo meticuloso de la reconstrucción histórica. Señal de seriedad de un...

Lee Woodward, Ralph

Lee Woodward, Ralph

Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. This biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera's ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala. ...